The Wednesday Chef

Month: August 2016

  • Lucky Peach’s Miso Claypot Chicken (No Claypot)

    I made dinner in my rice cooker last night. … insert blinking-in-disbelief emoji face … Let me repeat that. I MADE DINNER. In my RICE COOKER. And no, not just the rice, mind you, the WHOLE DINNER. (Well, except for the salads, but let's not split hairs.) It may have been the greatest discovery of…

  • Cook the Farm

    That little blue window up there is from the room where I first stayed when I came to the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School on the Regaleali estate in 2015. I was there to teach a writing class with Rachel for a week and promptly fell in love with the place. We spent that week…

  • An End-of-Summer Catch-Up

    My dearest readers, you have been so patient with me! My last post was almost three entire months ago. Eek! I didn't fully intend to take such a long break, but I really, really needed it. In early May, I sent off the very last book-edit-related email and it suddenly went very quiet around here.…